Songfacts®:

• This three-part ten-minute opus shares its name with the piece of art designed by visual artist Emek that is on the cover of the album. Emek, who also designed the artwork for New Amerykah Part One, explained on his website that he used song lyrics from the album as inspiration.
• Badu told the Dallas-Fort Worth entertainment newspaper Quick about the track. She explained: "It's a three-movement song. The first movement is called 'Recovering Undercover Over-lover.' It actually sums up the whole album, because I'm talking about love and emotion – 'I need you to do this,' 'I want you to do this,' 'You make me feel like this,' 'Why don't you feel like this?' It's typical of how you feel in relationships. The second movement is called 'Easier Said Than Done,' and it's about how hard it is to change after you've been in a relationship for so long. And then the third movement is called 'But Not This Time,' because even though I've done things a certain way for so long, I won't do that this time."